At the end of a holiday in Bali, Julian, an unhappy schoolteacher decides to meet a renowned local healer, Samtyang. Through daily sessions at the wise man's house, he begins to identify the source of his unhappiness as a series of simple questions and answers point to his own limiting beliefs and fears. Day after day, their dialogue is punctuated by live examples and challenges Julian is asked to experience on the island's mainland and its surroundings. From international best-selling author Laurent Gounelle, The Man Who Wanted to be Happy explores the world of new possibilities that are open to us when we discover how to break free of what prevents us from being truly happy.

Miguel Bonnefoy’s colourful tale of a family’s changing fortunes is also the fascinating story of Venezuela’s development over the course of the 20th century. On the edge of the Latin American rainforest, the Oteros family farm sugar cane in their remote corner of the earth. Cut off entirely from the modern world, life is peaceful, uneventful. Until, that is, a succession of ships arrive in search of Henry Morgan’s legendary lost treasure, said to be buried deep beneath the forest floor. Soon, the isolated villagers are exposed to all the trappings of modernity, while the travellers’ search for booty unearths more than anybody could have anticipated... And so it was that the treasure lay buried amid scraps of sail and a pirate’s corpse, preserved within the belly of the Caribbean...

INTERACTION: LANGUE ET CULTURE is a complete intermediate French program offering unparalleled support to help you hone your speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. The enhanced ninth edition includes five court-metrage films with accompanying activities. These award-winning Francophone films provide you with the opportunity to interact, in a meaningful way, with the French language and Francophone cultures. The Interaction program contains a broad range of cultural and literary content, as well as concise yet thorough, grammar explanations in a convenient, one-book format. A technologically enhanced multimedia package is available as an additional supplement. This multimedia package includes an engaging video program and iLrnTM: Heinle Learning Center--a powerful, all-in-one online solution that helps you get the most out of your course. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

INTERACTION: LANGUE ET CULTURE, 8th Edition is a complete intermediate French program offering unparalleled support for the study of culture, literature, and language. The Enhanced 8th Edition includes five court-metrage films with accompanying pre - , during, and post- viewing activities. The film spreads with accompanying activities occur every two chapters in the core textbook. These award-winning Francophone films provide students with opportunities to interact, in a meaningful way, with the French language and Francophone cultures. The Interaction program contains a broad range of cultural and literary content and concise, yet thorough grammar explanations in a convenient, one-book format. The Eighth Edition maintains the renowned strengths of previous editions--now combined with many improvements, including new readings and cultural content that speak to the interests of today's student. INTERACTION is accompanied by a technologically enhanced multimedia package, including an engaging video program and iLrn: Heinle Learning Center--a powerful, all-in-one online solution that helps you and your students get the most out of your course. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Winner of the Prix France Culture/Télérama prize, The Class explores timely issues of race, class, identity, colonial history, immigration, and education, "suspend[ing] judgment and liberat[ing] the raw words of kids in a deconsecrated classroom" (Le Monde). The novel's eponymous film version, directed by Laurent Cantet, starring author Bégaudeau as himself, won the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Confessions of a Sociopath is both the memoir of a high-functioning, law-abiding (well, mostly) sociopath and a roadmap -- right from the source -- for dealing with the sociopath in your life. As M.E. Thomas says of her fellow sociopaths, “We are your neighbors, your coworkers, and quite possibly the people closest to you: lovers, family, friends. Our risk-seeking behavior and general fearlessness are thrilling, our glibness and charm alluring. Our often quick wit and outside-the-box thinking make us appear intelligent—even brilliant. We climb the corporate ladder faster than the rest, and appear to have limitless self-confidence. Who are we? We are highly successful, noncriminal sociopaths and we comprise 4 percent of the American population.” Confessions of a Sociopath—part confessional memoir, part primer for the curious—takes readers on a journey into the mind of a sociopath, revealing what makes them tick while debunking myths about sociopathy and offering a road map for dealing with the sociopaths in your life. M. E. Thomas draws from her own experiences as a diagnosed sociopath, her popular Sociopathworld blog, and scientific literature to unveil for the very first time these men and women who are “hiding in plain sight.”

The Art of Change provides practitioners with in-depth information on the theory and practice of strategic therapy, presenting an innovative approach to conceptualizing and solving human problems. This book, the English translation of Giorgio Nardone's highly regarded Italian book, L'Arte del cambiamento - with its introductory chapter by Paul Watzlawick - provides clinical examples and practical guidelines revealing how to apply specific, goal-directed, and time-saving therapeutic techniques in practice. Nardone and Watzlawick offer an overview of the historical development of strategic therapy approaches and they look at the conceptual differences of the most important authors and scholars on strategic therapy. The authors show how, as opposed to traditional therapeutic approaches, the strategic therapy intervention can be a swift, well-planned process whose initiation, direction, objectives, and duration can be fairly clear from the beginning. And they demonstrate how, to be truly effective in obtaining solutions to specific clinical problems, the therapist needs to combine a knowledge of systemic techniques with inventiveness and versatility. This book gives a detailed account of techniques and specific interventions for working with clients suffering from anxiety, phobias, and obsessive-compulsive problems. Demonstrating the efficacy and the speed of this approach, Nardone presents a systematic, thorough evaluation of the results he obtained by applying these techniques to a large and varied group of subjects over two years.

Daniel Pennac has never forgotten what it was like to be a very unsatisfactory student, nor the day one of his teachers saved his life by assigning him the task of writing a novel. This was the moment Pennac realized that no-one has to be a failure for ever.In School Blues, Pennac explores the many facets of schooling: how fear makes children reject education; how children can be captivated by inventive thinking; how consumerism has altered attitudes to learning. Haunted by memories of his own turbulent time in the classroom, Pennac enacts dialogues with his teachers, his parents and his own students, and serves up much more than a bald analysis of how young people are consistently failed by a faltering system.School Blues is not only universally applicable, but it is unquestionably a work of literature in its own right, driven by subtlety, sensitivity and a passion for pedagogy, while embracing the realities of contemporary culture.